Congrats to our former client SkyGrid on finally giving away your service - to normal people.
Its great to see Dave Winer thinking about using RSS for real-time purposes. That’s what I assumed would happen 12 years ago, hoped would happen 8 years ago, tried to make happen 5 years ago, assumed would eventually happen 2 years ago, finally gave up on worrying about it last year and sure enough - maybe it’ll happen.
Chris Messina (new member of the OpenID Foundation board) = “Perception and Reality in the land of OpenID”. Now that Chris is on the board, lets hope that OpenID’s brand can morph into a solution, not some techy geeky thingie. Most normal people think OpenID is the solution and just by “using it” all their issues will go away. HAH!
Its great to see Doc waking up to two facts a) Facebook is the Borg - b) it can be a useful and compelling Borg. As Michael Arrington says “closed systems are not necessarily bad”. I agree. Now we just have to open up Facebook - more.
It was 25 years ago this month I attended the Mac unveiling at Moscone. The earth shook (there was an earthquake) and I was getting married, so I convinced my new father-in-law to invest $100,000 into our new company - MacroMind. I was helping out the Wm. Morris Agency at the time - by introducing a book agent - Ned Leavitt - to a bunch of bylines, like John Dvorak and Jerry Pournelle. They asked me to become an agent, and I told them I’d rather be a client.
Did I ever tell yah my friend Pierre won a technical Oscar? His company Re:Vision does special effects plugins. Here he is with his partner Pete in an article in Creative Cow.
Pierre and his wife Ami Sun are one of my last connects into my prior life as a multimedia dude.
As time moves on and computer graphics and special effects make it more and more into mainstream, it’s great to see innovation and good people still get over.
Smarts is something you can’t fake.
Nepotism can’t get you there.
Or insider game politics.
Just quality and hard work. And then some of them get Oscars.
I asked Tim Draper why I should plug his new blog? He’s never invested in me, shown any interest in what we’re doing or our open efforts. So why plug a VC? Cause he’s into his family!@#! We need more VCs who are human.
Is the U.S. Senate Un-American? (from my father’s old partner Don Rose)
Beyond the API: Why companies should have a presence on all major platforms. I agree. However I disagree that AIR is important. Adobe sucks and they can’t be trusted.
Got this coolio laptop pillow from the kind folks at Intelligent Forms.
Send more free stuff!
But don’t expect me to say nice things. This pillow thingie is coolio, but a bit weird to get used to. I probably wouldn’t buy one myself - but that’s just me. It’s geared towards sitting up, and I do all my laptop computing laying down.
My years in this business have taught me a lot of lessons - one of the most important being - when a device or service relies upon ONE source, then it’s in trouble. ONLY until having a second source of content, applications or services can a new platform or device flourish.
I gotta call Dave Isenberg and ask him if I can use this infrastructure shot in my book
